20 May 2010, Posted by Josh Allan Dykstra in Legacy, Life, 1 Comments
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Check out this brilliant video on the future of publishing and how we see emerging leaders.
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11 Dec 2009, Posted by Josh Allan Dykstra in Life, 2 Comments
Even though it never snows where I live, I grew up in a place where the cold of winter seeps into your bones and December really does hold the darkest night of the year. Sparkling lights, hot cocoa, and melancholy music all seem to make more sense in that atmosphere, but the nostalgia still feels real and I’m grateful for that.
Here’s a list of some of my favorite holiday songs this season. I tried to make sure they were either slightly left-of-center (maybe even off your radar) or so extraordinarily beautiful that you simply must have them.
Happy holidays, my friends.
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08 Dec 2009, Posted by Josh Allan Dykstra in Life, 0 Comments
One of my favorite things to do is to create music. In fact, before I started working with leaders and writing books, I was playing shows with talented folks like The Fray / Sister Hazel / Mat Kearney and writing songs.
Now I produce and write music in my spare time, and I’m always keeping an eye on new music business models. I’ve just teamed up with NoiseTrade (Fair Trade Music) to offer my last album, The Let Go, for whatever price you like. Seriously!
You can even get it for free…
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03 Dec 2009, Posted by Josh Allan Dykstra in Leadership, 0 Comments
I was invited by Mazda to attend the Los Angeles Auto Show at the LA Convention Center on December 2, 2009.
Mazda really surprised me, in a good way — but it wasn’t really because of their new car, the Mazda2 (although that was nice too)…
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12 Nov 2009, Posted by Josh Allan Dykstra in Life, 0 Comments
Welcome to Part III of 12 Songs You Need On Your iPod.
This list is something I’m calling the Goosebumps Edition. I don’t mean this in a scary, book/tv series from the nineties kind of way, but more so in a “these songs tell such heart wrenchingly beautiful stories they give me goosebumps even after I hear them a hundred times” kind of way. (more…)
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Michael Moore’s Capitalism: A Love Story is one of the most important films of the year (seriously).
If only he knew the definition of “capitalism”…
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08 Oct 2009, Posted by Josh Allan Dykstra in Life, 0 Comments
Welcome to the new blog design! The Wordpress theme is called Press and was designed by the great folks at Obox.
I still have a few bugs to work out, but I’m hoping this makes the site a bit more aesthetically pleasing and my oft-long posts a bit easier for you to read…
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24 Sep 2009, Posted by Josh Allan Dykstra in Legacy, 0 Comments
This isn’t a technology blog by any means, but these invisible speakers have the potential to be fairly game-changing for TVs, computers, and game systems. Have your mind blown right around the 2 minute mark.
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